There are solid reasons to be hopeful that a Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress will see the wisdom of continuing to sustain U.S. leadership in global health and that they may willingly choose to do so in concert with Democratic leaders in Congress and...

December 6, 2016
| Nellie BristolThe United States has been a top financial and technical supporter of global polio eradication for more than 30 years. In addition to polio-related activities, U.S. funding for eradication supports surveillance, immunization delivery, laboratories, and response capabilities...

No one predicted that the first pandemic of this century would come from Mexico, but it did. No one would have predicted MERS in the Middle East, or that West Africa would have the world’s first Ebola epidemic, or that we would have had SARS in the way we did. And we...

November 22, 2016Tuberculosis (TB) leads to more deaths worldwide than any other infectious disease. Yet, TB programs face a persistent lack of prioritization in national and global health agendas. While most TB cases can be treated with readily available drugs, an increasing number of TB...

November 3, 2016
| Janet FleischmanWith each passing week, the political unrest and repression in Ethiopia is attracting new levels of global attention: from Feyisa Lilesa’s protest sign at the Rio Olympics in August, to recent clashes in Oromia where hundreds of protesters were killed by security forces and...

“Ending preventable maternal and child death is an admirable goal that we can all be proud of….But we need to get to a place as a country where we view this goal with the same commitment and determination as when we went to the moon.” That powerful message was...

Today’s crisis in Venezuela is one of the most serious cases of a slow-motion collapse of a nation-state in the history of the Americas. It is hard to predict how a future transition will play out, but this will certainly be one of the most dramatic and challenging...